(this blog took me forever)

Well this past week a lot has happend. Starting with a literal BANG! Yes you guessed it, the volcano blew up. With our prof being here from Trinity we have classes in the morning and at night. It was nice having out afternoons off, and we were able to have time to chill in Antigua. Our favorite place in Antigua is our churches coffee shop. It the best place to meet other missonaries from Canada, the States and around the world. Its a really good place to get connections to other ministries, and find out whats going on around Guatemala. Alot of our friends from Antigua work there aswell, and its the best place to chill, do some homework and drink some good Guatemalan Coffee. Also this week we had a team from Pacific Academy arrive on our campus. They will be with us untill next monday. It awesome having more people to talk to, and also catch up on the goings on from back home.

Last week we also went into Guatemala city.

We visted the National Palace and the Guatemalan city dump, its not just a place for the cities garbage, but people who cant afford land find themselves having to live in the dump. As you can see this has been going on for years. The people have found a way to wire in electricity, and the area is slowly becoming a whole town. The people that end up moving into the dump usually end up making the dump their job. Everyday they go into the dump that search for iteams they can sell to other people who have set up recycling shops near the dump. It is a whole cycle that continues on from generation to generation, and it is never hard to get out of the loop.

Here is me in Antigua. Dad, you would like this, they have this whole area set up as anew and used books sale every week end (its huge!!)